Word: picketer
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...eight-year-old child, James P. Hoffa was often lured away and could not join other kids in punting footballs or sledding on icy streets. Instead, he was "on a picket line. I'd be standing by the fire barrel with my dad. He'd explain to me why we were there--that people were on strike for better wages, better lives. That's my heritage...
Protesters paused to picket in front of the Guess? and NikeTown stores on Newbury Street. Near the end of the march, a small group of protesters managed to get past guards at Copley Place to picket in front of the Disney Store inside the mall before turning back under threat of arrest by the Boston Police...
...players received $10,000 a month from the association's strike fund, which had been fattened with the proceeds from endorsement deals. But not all fat cats think ahead. The National Football League Players Association went into its 1987 strike with no funds whatsoever, and players were soon crossing picket lines...
...showdown. Even as Carey rallied the troops last week, it was clear that the Teamsters' finances were in no shape for a lengthy walkout. With the union's membership down from 2 million a decade ago to 1.4 million today, its strike fund is thinner than a picket sign. Strikers, some of whom have been pulling down $50,000 a year, can count on benefits of only $55 a week...
...remarkable that the United Steelworkers has shut down Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. for the past nine months. The U.S.W. is no stranger to picket lines. What is really remarkable is that this longest Big Steel walkout since World War II has gone unnoticed by both the nation and the marketplace...